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- Dec 30, 2021
Re-doing the OP is talked about every 6 months to a year but it would be a waste of time for whoever took that on. Do you need a basic outline? This would need to be filled out with more of the important videos and funny shit like Dale Keown passing out and knocking over his piss bottles.Given everything that’s happened over the course of the past 5 years or so, should the first post be updated to be up to date on the current state of Comicsgate? Or a timeline kept of all the important moments? Or a pinned post? Or just leave it as is and just go through the thread to learn about the ins and outs of this entire drama?
First introductory post on Comicsgate
Pre-Comicsgate: Some journalist writing about Gamergate coins "Comicsgate" saying that will be a load of shit or whatever when that happens. People like Sargon make proto- CG videos bitching about Marvel comics. (2014)
OG Comicsgate: The original youtubers and twitter users are people like first Captain Cummings and Doug Ernst then Richard C Meyer/ Diversity in Comics channel est 2017, and others rarely mentioned anymore like Englentine, Unranked Chevron, and Captain Frugal. This group is where the nebulous ideological "we just want better comics" and various permutations of this originates from. Early on is focused on attacking Marvel and DC creators and editors "Milkshake girls" is an early controversy with Richard C Meyer's "Dark Roast" stream being required watching for this era. Meyer also streams from the Charlottesville Unite the Right riot.
Richard C Meyer vs Mark Waid: Meyer solicits Jawbreakers to Antarctic press and Waid interferes spoiling the deal. Lawsuit will follow and eventually have a fundraiser started by Van Sciver and the lawsuit unceremoniously is dropped years later.
Comicsgate phase 2: Industry rejects like Jon Malin and Ethan Van Sciver join up with Meyer circa 2018. Ethan Van sciver starts his Comicsgate Live stream and becomes the biggest show in Comicsgate. Second wave newcomers like YellowFlash, Tim Lim, Edwin Boyette, Star Wars Girl, Mandy Summers, Cecil and the Warcampaign appear. More industry vets like Mike S Miller, Doug Tenapel and the Breitweisers join up plus a bunch of other small timers. With Warcampaign's help EVS ousts Miller, Boyette, Lim, Ernst, Tenapel, etc. Then Warcampaign is cut loose first on the "Fall of Rome" stream then with finality after the Star Wars Girl "dead sister" debacle.
Comicsgate phase 3 Scivergate: With Warcampaign cut loose in early 2020 EVS is the main force and influence in CG. Even Richard C Meyer nopes out. Funding peaks during COVID for Cyberfrog 2 and never reaches that high again until Eric July's ISOM. Eric July is another streamer who has similar content to Comicsgate and there is some audience crossover. Eventually Eric starts his Rippaverse in 2022 and beats all previous CG records.
Devolving to Eric July A-Logging and the core 6 CG'ers:
In late 2023 EVS falls out with Eric July and Yellowflash. He starts the Trashcast which is dedicated to perpetually shitting on those two.
Full explanation here:
Ethan declares the core comicsgaters are himself, Shane Davis, Anna That Star Wars Girl, Cecil, Malin, and Mandy Summers a southern thot who got there by sharing nudes. Perpetual tard war with Eric July is on the agenda daily and current day CG allies are people like Dick & Vito, Ethan Ralph, and post polycule and arrest Nick Rekieta.2. Eric July le based black man youtuber makes capeshit
Eric July is a black libertarian ancap youtuber making similar content to Comicsgate and was friendly with them until recently. In 2022 he announces the Rippaverse, his own comic superhero universe and it makes a couple million dollars. Comicsgate/Van Sciver support it initially. Van Sciver does a variant cover for July's ISOM #2.
3. Dick & Vito hate Eric and his comics, are obsessed
Vito, a fat disgusting "comedian" from LA is crowdfunding a comic and has a podcast with Dick Masterson (The Biggest Problem in the Universe). He is the first of this group to focus on July. Before the book ISOM came out Vito was nit picking it, got trounced in a debate with July etc. Masterson made fun of Vito for being obsessed. In May 2023 Masterson reviews ISOM #1 Eric's first comic. The review is negative. Eric July flips out, refutes every point of the review declares Masterson his enemy, and starts calling him "Buster Baxter". Masterson doubles down, emboldening his fans to start mischief. Riley (fat guy who fought with Ethan Ralph when he went to Digibro's house to get Pantsu's stuff) declares himself the Clippaverse and says he will shave Eric July. July ends up DMCA striking Riley's logo and Riley shows up at July's warehouse while July is not there. Later another Dick Show fan poses and leaves some stuffed animals at Eric July's ancestor Isom Knox's grave (the forum claims he pissed on the grave but this is not likely true). Yet another troll sends an email to a ministry school called ISOM causing a lawsuit that is later settled. Eric July becomes a mainstay subject on every episode of the Dick Show and Biggest Problem in The Universe. All of this enrages July and he makes videos reacting to it.
4. Ethan Van Sciver tries to ride the fence, ends up on the wrong side. Goes full retard. Comicsgate allies with Dick & Vito in endless tard war vs July.
Masterson, Vito, July, and Van Sciver all appear on a YellowFlash2 Flashcast stream. Van Sciver tries to play both sides saying Eric should take the criticism and use it. The rest fight with Vito and Masterson who appear separately. Eric says hell to the naw naw and sends text messages to Van Sciver after the show telling him to cut it out. Most of the anti-woke nerd youtubers side with July (except notably Rekieta) but Ethan Van Sciver is a fan of Masterson and Rekieta. Van Sciver tries to play both sides for a few weeks but starts appearing on a show called Geek Getaway that also hosts Riley, Vito, and the guy who allegedly pissed on the grave. July continues to make veiled references to Van Sciver's disloyalty in his videos. Van Sciver doxes the private conversation and does his own bad reviews of ISOM #1 and #2. At this point he has chosen a side. He makes a video with Riley and Mint Salad in person. He has Masterson, Vito, Geek Getaway, even Ethan Ralph (also a July hater) on his show. Smaller Eric July hater channels pop up, mostly all Comicsgate friendly and some get monetized. Ethan Starts "Trashcast" a show dedicated to obsessing over Eric July in the style of Masterson and the other small hater channels. He has now become full retard. Eric July on the other hand takes a step forward, stops chimping out about da haters and continues to publish comics. Van Sciver collects money for comics that ship years late and is basically ComicsGunt.
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